'Shirtless' FBI Agent In Petraeus Scandal Identified

The identity of one of the key actors in the ongoing Petraeus scandal has been revealed by Michael Schmidt of The New York Times.

The man is Frederick Humphries, a 47-year-old agent who initially took the complaint from Jill Kelley about alleged threatening emails she was receiving. Humphries and Kelley were friends prior to the investigation.

“That picture was sent years before Ms. Kelley contacted him about this, and it was sent as part of a larger context of what I would call social relations in which the families would exchange numerous photos of each other.”

Apparently a well-respected counter-terrorism agent, Humphries had made some headlines in the late 1990s. This Seattle Times story shows how his French-language skills helped stop a terrorism attack, and features a couple of pictures: